diff --git a/nixio/info.json b/nixio/info.json
index 5a15ef2a..c77552ba 100644
--- a/nixio/info.json
+++ b/nixio/info.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
-    "VERSION": "1.5.3",
+    "VERSION": "1.5.4",
     "STATUS": "Release",
-    "RELEASE": "1.5.3 Release",
+    "RELEASE": "1.5.4 Release",
     "AUTHOR": "Christian Kellner, Adrian Stoewer, Andrey Sobolev, Jan Grewe, Balint Morvai, Achilleas Koutsou",
     "COPYRIGHT": "2014-2021, German Neuroinformatics Node, Christian Kellner, Adrian Stoewer, Andrey Sobolev, Jan Grewe, Balint Morvai, Achilleas Koutsou",
     "CONTACT": "dev@g-node.org",